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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Google and Storyful are launching YouTube Newswire, a feed of verified user-generated videos — Storyful and Google News Lab today are launching YouTube Newswire, a dedicated YouTube channel meant to serve as a resource for journalists looking for user-generated videos from around the world …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Arianna Huffington renews contract through 2019 — Forget about a Huffington Post without Huffington. — Arianna Huffington, the web site's namesake, president and editor in chief, told staffers on Thursday that she has signed a new contract that will keep her in place through 2019.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed launches news app that focuses on serious reporting, notifications, and curation — Why BuzzFeed wanted everyone to know about its new news app — even before it launched — If you're reading this, then it's more likely than not that you're already aware of BuzzFeed's news app.
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian Media Group appoints David Pemsel as chief executive — Former ITV marketing director, who wants to build on Guardian and Observer's international audience, succeeds Andrew Miller — Guardian Media Group has promoted David Pemsel to the role of chief executive.
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NBC News:
Lester Holt confirmed as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams to anchor breaking news and special reports on MSNBC — Lester Holt Named Anchor of “NBC Nightly News” — Andrew Lack, Chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, on Thursday announced that Lester Holt will be named the permanent anchor of “NBC Nightly News.”
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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple emails publishers, telling them its News app will use their RSS feeds and they will indemnify Apple from lawsuits unless they opt out — Publishers Upset Over Apple's Opt-Out Terms for Inclusion in iOS 9 News App — Apple recently sent a mass email to news publishers to introduce …
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NSBlog, BBC, @louisgray, @driven_by_data, Tech Times, The Drum, BetaNews and Business Insider
Lisa Campbell / Bookseller News:
Amazon will now pay Kindle Direct authors based on how many pages customers read — Amazon to pay KDP authors ‘per page’ — Amazon is changing the way it pays self-published authors whose books are enlisted in the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending library to a pay-per-page-read model.
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@raju, @jeffjohnroberts and Good E-Reader
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp to cut more than 100 jobs in publishing unit and close bureaus in Prague and Helsinki — News Corp to Cut Jobs, Shift Resources to Digital Media — Some WSJ blogs and overseas bureaus to close; cuts could surpass 100 — News Corp is carrying out a major reorganization …
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Capital New York and New York Times
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat says its Live Stories, which include multiple ads costing around 2 cents per view for advertisers, are viewed on average by 20M people per day — Snapchat Is Making Some Pretty Serious Money From Live Stories — Snapchat built a brand out of disappearing photos …
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Poynter, @recode, @fmanjoo and Business Insider
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson could face £750,000 legal bill for phone hacking trial — CPS asks court to award costs against David Cameron's former head of communications and former News of the World editor — David Cameron's former head of communications Andy Coulson is facing a six-figure legal bill …
Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Guardian:
Inside Politico's new Brussels office and how it plans to cover the EU amid competition — Can Politico make Brussels sexy? — he 27-year-old New Yorker Tara Palmeri, a former gossip columnist and the incandescent envoy of media's future to the Brussels of the past …
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